Joshua Ngugi Toro

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 321 to 330 of 405.

• 28 Jun 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) The company which was awarded the contract to gravel the 43-kilometre Kiptagich- Silibwet Road is BMK Construction Company Limited. The contract sum was Kshs49,086,600. The contract period was 18 months; commencing June, 1996. (b) The contractor did not complete the works as per the contract agreement. The El Nino rains rendered the provisions in the Bills of Quantities inadequate to gravel the entire road. A variation order of Kshs28,290,275 was procured and submitted to the Treasury for countersignature. However, the Treasury did not countersign with the reason that the variation order ... view
• 28 Jun 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the works on that road are not ongoing. In 2000 when the contractor could not get the additional funds that were required to complete the project, he requested the Ministry to inspect the road and issue a certificate of completion for the section that June 28, 2006 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 1683 was done. This was done in 2000 and granted as substantially complete for the works that were done and procured. That is the position up to now. view
• 28 Jun 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, before 2003 when this Government took over, and on examination of the capacity in the Ministry to design and supervise new construction and gravelling works, it was found out that we did not have the capacity. The Ministry procured the services of local consulting engineers. We are engaging them as resident engineers and assistant resident engineers for all new works that we are procuring. view
• 28 Jun 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am not aware of that provision. view
• 28 Jun 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the programme for gravelling during that time, which was not completed, was discontinued in 2000. Since then, there has been no programme to complete the gravelling. This financial year there is no programme to finish the gravelling. view
• 21 Jun 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) I am aware that the 30-kilometre Ekero-Ebuyangu Road is impassable during the rainy season. My Ministry has already contracted the road for improvement and upgrading to gravel standards at a contract sum of Kshs123,063,515. (b) The design of the road for upgrading to bitumen standard is being looked into for the 2006/2007 Financial Year. view
• 21 Jun 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, if I were to give the genesis of this road, initially we worked out a design for upgrading it to gravel standard and we advertised it in the media. A contractor by the name Bridgestone won the tender. He was awarded the contract and was told to move to start construction. He started construction but he has been very slow on it. In the process, we had already commissioned Kass Consultants to do the design to upgrade the road to bitumen standard at a cost of about Kshs9.2 million. At the moment, Kass Consultants have given ... view
• 21 Jun 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I think my friend, hon. Odoyo, was not attentive. I said the consultants have already finalised the design and they are going to submit the final draft design report at a cost of Kshs9.2 million. The Kshs123 million that was awarded was from the fuel levy. The allocation for the next financial year is in the Development Estimates. We are not going to use the Kshs123 million from the fuel levy since it will be allocated elsewhere. However, by the time we advertise and we go through the procurement procedure, we will be talking about awarding ... view
• 21 Jun 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, yes, there is a plan to improve the standard of roads in this country and we have managed, in the next financial year, to convince the Minister for Finance to give the Ministry more money so that we are able to finish all the ongoing projects to which we did not have proper allocation. When I say we did not have a proper allocation it is because we had started a lot of projects using fuel levy money at the expense of maintenance. The Minister has agreed to start giving us development funds for those roads ... view
• 21 Jun 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I said yesterday that we are improving on project management and one of the key parameters of project management is paying the contractors when they submit their certificates. I would also seek the indulgence of the hon. Members that they give us a breathing space so that we are able to finish the ongoing projects. There is a lot of pressure from hon. Members of Parliament on us to undertake so many roads and consider so many constituencies and when we do that, we end up with a shortage of funds. You will find that where ... view